Dietz, J. C. 


Christian Science 


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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 


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REV. J. C. DIETZ 


Printed by the Southern Conference of the Chicago Synod 
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object of the paper is to counteract the delusive and 1 
ets of the sect, ‘Christian Science,’’ falsely socalled, — 
NOVEMBER, 1903. 


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eIP2CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 


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I. ITS ORIGIN. 


Christian Science is about thirty-five years old. It now 
claims 450 societies, which they call churches, and some 
5,500 teachers and healers, employed in healing and propa- 
gating its teachings. It also claims a following of 1,000,- 
ooo members. 

The reputed founder of this society is Mrs. Mary Baker 
Eddy. Her first husband was Col. Glover, a rich slave 
owner of Charleston, S. C., who died in 1845. Her second 
husband was Daniel Patterson. This marriage proved 
uncongenial for Mrs. Patterson, as she claims, and after a 
few years rough sailing she obtained a divorce. Her third 


husband was Asa G. Eddy, who died after a few years. 


Mrs. Eddy claims to have discovered C. S. in the year 1866. 
As to where she discovered it we shall see later. ‘‘Science 
and Health,’’ written by Mrs. Eddy, is the C. S. Bible. 
All quotations, setting forth the principles of C. S., will be 
made from the 33d edition of this book. 

In 1867, Mrs. Eddy opened a school of C. S. Mind Heal- 
ing for the prophets of the new faith. Tuition for primary 
course in this school was $300; the normal course, $200 ; 
obstetrics, $100; theological course, $200. So far as I 


‘know there is not a theological seminary in the whole Chris- 


tian church that charges its students tuition. But Mrs. 
Eddy, who claims to be following Christ and his teachings, 
charges her students $800 very hard and material dollars, 
exclusive of board. ‘This too must be in advance. ‘This is 
preposterous in view of the fact that the whole course oc- 
cupies only three weeks. Mrs. Eddy says that in seven 
years she had 4,000 students. 

In 1875, she issued her first edition of S. and H. It has now 


ABBREVIATIONS: C. S., Christian Science. S. & H., Science and 


Health. 
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reached its 163d edition. The price of thi 

in advance. No healer is allowed to practic 
less he possesses a copy of this ‘‘holy nig 
strongly urges all students and patients to br 
read it asa panacea for allills. ‘‘If ther 
observes a great stir throughout the whole - 
moral and physical symptoms seem aggrav: 
ditions are favorable. Continue to read.” 
cording to Dr. Eddy the larger the dose the b 

A few years ago she published a poem, en 
and Christmas.’’ ‘The price of this poem was 
advance. 

No member of a C. S. church, young or old, 
his membership unless he pays $1 capitation t 

The C. S. healer gets one dollar for each visit 
She (it is usually a she) uses no drugs, 
manipulations—prescribes no remedies whate 4 
does is to sit and argue for fifteen minutes or m 
patient, showing him that he is not sick—he 

o; there is no such thing as sin, sickness, d 
death ; they are only imaginations, the belie 
mind. 

In addition to all this Mrs. Eddy has laun 
the souvenir spoon business. In a bull issued 
Mother church, she has decreed that: ‘‘Each Sei 
purchase at least one spoon; and those who ¢ai 
one dozen spoons, that their families may read f 
at every meal, and their guests be made part 
simpletruths.’’ These spoons cost $3 a piece for p 
$5 a piece for silver with gold edges—cash in adu. 

As a money-making machine, Mrs. Eddy has 
bonanza. It outrivals the church of Rome o1 
dollar steel trust. Though once a poor woman, 
rich—growing richer every day, and able to live in 
mansion among the hills of New Hampshire. 


Ir.:AS A PHILOSOPEw: 


‘There is nothing new inC. S. Mrs. Eddy claims 
discovered it in 1866, saying that ‘‘ neither tongt 
suggested it.’’ But the truth of the matter is h 


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phy and theosophy are both over 4,000 years old, and are 
almost identical with that of the Vedas, the sacred books of 
Brahmanism. 

A few parallel quotations from S. & H. and Dr. Free- 
man Clark’s history of Brahmanism, will satisfy the unpre- 
judiced, as to where she discovered C. S. and whether or 
not tongue or pen suggested it. 


SCIENCE AND HEALTH. | BRAHMANISM. 
“Spirit and its formations are | ‘The only real existence is that 
the only realities.”’—Page 20. — U of spirit.”—Vedie Poem. 
“Tt teaches that matter is the | “Matter does not really exist ; 


falsity, notthef#act of existence.’” 
—P. 22. ‘Matter is neither thing 
nor person, but merely human | the Supreme power has created 
belief.”’—P. 24. an illusive and temporary matter, 

“Divine science shows that | which seems to exist, but does 
matter and mortal body are the | not really do so. There is then 


illusions of human belief.’’—P. 379. | no real existence for matter.’’— 
“Matter was found to be a be- | Vedic Poem. 


lief only.” “The world is not being. It is 


x : : 
Bee oo a aeae | appearance without reality, a de- 
and that there is no matter. You | nie mx 
; ; | lusive show.’’—Sankara. 

are only seeing and feeling a be- | 


lief, whether it be a cancer, de- | ‘There is nothing in the uni- 


formity, consumption or fract- | verse but spirit and illusive ap- 
ture.’’—P. 297. pearances.’’ 

“Spirit is the only substance.”’ ‘‘There is nothing but spirit, 
—P. 377. ‘‘God never created | which neither creates nor is cre- 
matter, for there is nothing in ated, and into which all souls are 


spirit out of which matter could | absorbed, when they free them- 


it is merely the production of 
Maya, the mystic power, by which 


be made.’’—P. 380. | selves from the belief that they 

“If soul could sin, it would be | can experience either joy or pain.” 

matter instead of spiritual.’"-P.50. | He who has obtained knowl- 
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‘““The science’ of being reveals | edge of God “‘lives sinless; as 
man as perfect even as his Father.) water wets not the leaf of the 
in heayen is perfect.’’—P. 28. lotus, so sin touches not him who 
“Because man is the reflection | Knows God.’’—Veda. 

of his maker, he is not subject to | ‘‘The soulis not subject to birth 
birth, growth, maturity or de- | or death, but is in its substance 
cay.”—P. 12. ‘He is coexistent | from Brahma himself.’’ 

and coeternal with God.” 


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I might multiply quotations, but these are sufficient to 
refute Mrs. Eddy’s claims to originality and heaven-born 


inspiration. 
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Practically her philosophy is altogeth 
plication. It is alike devoid of logic, s 
sense. Not only does C. S. deny all evic 
senses, but the existence of the senses thems¢ 
evidence of the senses reverses the science of b 
tablishes a reign of discord—the power of sin, s1¢ 
death.’’—P. 92. 

‘The material senses and Adam are figur: 
turn to the dust, to the nothingness of a be 
They are the error and not the truth of being 

It is to the five senses that human life is indeb 
knowledge, its reason, its discoveries and its 
Without the five senses, man or human life i is 
able. The manifest absurdity and the impra 
Mrs. Eddy’s philosophy is its own refutation. 

Besides it is contrary to Scripture, which teac 
God has created a material universe, given us 
ies, and endowed us with five material senses. 
of these five senses and reason, one of the grez 
God to man, contradict every part of Mrs. 
of philosophy. 


Ill. AS A RELIGION. 


Mrs. Eddy claims that ‘‘ Science and Health’ 
planation, or key to the Scriptures. But the tr 
a perversion, a sacrilegious denial of the plainest 
essential truths of the Bible. To the Christian 
Bible, and nothing but the Bible, is the rule 
of faith. Every moral and religious tenet con’ 
to be rejected as error. All the fundamentals 
are diametrically opposed to the plainest teachi 
Bible. S. & H. cuts out certain portions of the 
brands them as lies. For instance, the first chapter 
esis, Mrs. Eddy says, ‘‘is the spiritual and tru 
creation,’’ but of the second chapter she speaks as f 
‘“The 2d chapter contains a statement of the ma r 
of God, man, and the universe, which is the exact 
of scientific truth. The history of error, or matter, 
able, would set aside omnipotence of spirit; but 
false history, in contradiction to the true.’’—P. 448. 


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Mrs. Eddy denies the personality of God and Christ in 
the following words: ‘‘God is mind. He is divine princi- 
ple, not person.’’—P. 377. ‘‘Christ is divine principle, not 
person : soul outside of body.’’—P. 530. These and simi- 
lar statements are reiterated time and again all through the 
book. But it is enough for usto know that the Bible speaks 
of both God and Christ as having personality; see Heb. 1, 

m2 Cor. 2, 10. 

In addition to this, if God is simply a principle, devoid of 
personality, then he is a mere ¢#zmg, and not a being. For 
only a conscious being can possess personality. Only a 
being possessing personality can possess intelligence, love, 
and all other attributes ascribed to God in the Scriptures. 
Therefore to deny his personality is to rob him of his glory 
and reduce him to a mere senseless and unfeeling fhing as 
do the Brahmans when they say, ‘‘He neither creates nor is 
created, neither acts, nor suffers, nor changes.’’ 


Again, a principle is a rule of action which in and of’ 
itself is inoperative. Or still more comprehensively, a prin- 
ciple is a truth which expresses the relations of things. A 
principle involves and necessitates the existence of things, 
and can exist only subjectively. Principle is not an object- 
ive reality. So when C. S. says that God has not person- 
ality, and that he is ‘‘nothing but divine principle,’’ and on 
top of this says that ‘‘there is nothing in the universe but 
divine principle,’ it reduces him to a mere abstraction. 
This is to deny his existence altogether, for it is a univer- 
sally accepted truth that mere abstractions do not exist in 
reality. If God is not a personality it is a psychological 
impossibility for him to say my and mine, for only a being 
having personality and an objective existence can speak of 
things as belonging to himself. 

S. & H. says: ‘‘God is spirit and spirit is infinite. There 
is but one spirit.’"—P. 377. ‘“The supposition that persons 
are spirits is a mistake, since spirit is God, and there is but 
one. ‘The belief in good or evil spirits belongs to the dark 
aaesi—— >. 220; 

Over against this, the Bible teaches that there are both : 

good and evil spirits. See Heb. 1, 7, 14; Markg, 25; 


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2 iid 2, 4. Man also possesses a spirit—Eccl. 12, 7 ; Luke 

RSS. LED. 32, /9. 

ee to Mrs. Eddy the peliert in good and evil spirits, 
and those portions of the Bible which teach it, have become 
obsolete. She has therefore written a new Bible, and called 
it ‘‘Science and Health.’’ ; 

S. & H. identifies soul and spirit when it says that 
‘soul is God,’’ and that there is ‘‘ but one soul’’—404, 23. 
It also says that ‘‘ man is neither soul nor spirit.”’ 

But in Gen. 2, 7, we are told that God ‘‘ formed man of 
the dust and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, 
and man became a living soul.’’ This we believe, notwith- 
standing Mrs. Eddy, who calls this whole account a lie. 
From Genesis to Revelation runs like a golden thread, the 
great truth that man possesses both soul and spirit. See 
Pasweg ee Matt. 10).28)> 5. ‘Thes, 5 i239: 

Mrs. Eddy even lays sacrilegious hands upon the precious 
doctrine of the Trinity. She denies the Divinity of Jesus, 
and substitutes C. S. for the Holy Ghost. Her Trinity is 
‘God the Father, Jesus the Son, and Divine Science the 
Holy Ghost.’’ ‘‘ These three titles express the threefold 
nature of the infinite.’’-—Pp. 46, 140. 

Again S. & H. teaches, ‘‘ God is mind ; and there is but 
one mind, because there is but one God.’’—P. 378. But 
man also possesses a mind as is abundantly taught in Holy 
Scripture—Mark 12, 30. 5 

‘Mind is all and matterisnaught.’’—P.14. ‘‘Everything 
is mind.’’—P. 424. Here is taught the self-evident error 
that God is everything, and everything is God (Panthe- 
ism), and there is nothing in the universe but God. The 
existence of the material universe is denied. All these er- 
rors are refuted by the first and second chapters of Genesis 


alone, where God is represented as creating heaven and 


earth, sea and land; also man, giving him a material body 
and an immaterial soul. 

Once more hear the oracle speak ! ‘‘ Remember that all 
is mind, and there is no matter—you are only seeing and 
feeling a belief.’’—P. 297. ‘‘ Divine Science shows that 


‘matter and material body are the illusions of human belief.’’ 


—P. 379. The profound absurdity of this is its own refu- 


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tation. ‘Truly these are the husks that swine eat. If Mrs. 
Eddy really believes in the non-existence of matter and mate- 
rial body, why does she not discard clothes and food and 
live in the woods like other ‘‘ spooks.’’ 


ANTHROPOLOGY, 
the anthropology of S. & H. is no less absurd, unscien- 
tific, and unscriptural. A few quotations will suffice : 

‘“Man was and is the idea of God, the conception of the 
eternal mind, co-existent and co-eternal with it. Man was 
forever in God, or mind. ‘Therefore mind can never be in 
man. —P. 378. 

1. If man is simply an idea, a thought, a mental concept, 
then he can have no real objective, or concrete existence, 
which is the same thing as to deny his existence at all. Ab- 
stractions are not realities. 

2. If man is co-existent and co-eternal with God, then he 
is without beginning or end. In other words, he is infinite 
and equal with God. ‘This is to deify man and institute 
the worship of self. 

To say that man is co-existent and co-eternal with God, and 
that God created man is a contradiction of terms. Gen. 1, 
27 and 2, 7, plainly states that God ‘‘created man in his 
own image ;’’ that he formed his body out of the dust, and 
therefore we conclude he had a beginning. Which will you 
believe, Mrs. Eddy’s ‘‘ifse dixit’’ or the inspired Record ? 

Science and Health denies that man possesses a material 
body : ‘‘Divine science shows that matter and mortal body 
are the illusions of human belief.’’—P. 379. 

What fools we mortals be! This world would be far 
happier if Mrs. Eddy had no body ! 

S. & H. teaches sinless perfection. ‘‘Man is incapa- 
ble of sin, sickness, and death, inasmuch as he derives his 
essence from God and possesses not a single original or unde- 
rived power. Hence man cannot depart from holiness.’’— 
Pp. 541, 28. But the Bible says, 1 John 1, 8-10. This needs 
no comment. 

S. & H. denies the existence of sin, sickness, disease, and 
death, pronouncing them mere beliefs or illusions of mortal 
mind. ‘‘Maintain the facts of science, that mind is God 
and therefore cannot be sick ; also what is termed matter can- 


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not be sick ; that all causation is Spirit.’""—P. 293. ‘“‘ Re- 
member that all is mind and there is no matter. You are 
only seeing and feeling a belief, whether it be cancer, de- 
formity, consumption, or fracture.’-—P. 297. ‘To the 
scientist sickness is adream.’’ Dozens of similar statements 
are to be found in S. & H. concerning sin, sickness, and 
death. ; 

Now let us pursue some of these propositions to a logical 
conclusion. Mrs. Eddy argues: 

1. There is no matter, what seems to be matter is only a 
belief, and therefore cannot sin, get sick, or die. 

2. All is mind, mind is God, and God cannot sin, get 
sick, or die. 

Therefore, she concludes that ‘‘sin, sickness, and death 
are only imaginations, evil beliefs.’’ 

Question : Whence come these ‘‘evil beliefs,’’ we call sin, 
sickness, and death ? 

Mrs. Eddy says, ‘‘ They are merely beliefs and illusions 
of mortal mind.’’ 

Question : But what and whence is ‘‘ mortal mind.’’ 

She says: ‘‘ All causation is Spirit, and Spirit is God.”’ 


If this is true then it logically and inevitably follows sha‘ 
God ts either mortal mind or the cause of mortal mind. In 
either case he is the cause of all the sins and ills that afflict 
humanity. But Mrs. Eddy is an eel ! 

Listen! ‘‘ Mortal mind is nothing, claiming to be some- 
thing, belief creating other beliefs, sin, sickness, death.’’— 
P. 546. 

How nothing can cause something, how there can bea 
belief without a believer, the witch of New England does not 
tell us. Mortal mind is her Aladdin’s lamp with which 
she accomplishes the impossible, her scape-goat on which 
she rides through stone walls—her broom on which she 
rides to the moon and sweeps the cobwebs off the sky. 
Mortal mind is a serpent that gives birth to a host of ser- 
pentine apparitions that afflict humanity, and then swallows 
them all, and in turn takes its own tail in its own mouth 
and swallows itself. Truly C. S. is a wonderful beast ! 


To prove that sin, sickness, and death are hard, stern 


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realities I need not quote Scripture. They are self-evident 
to all outside of the insane asylum. 

If they are only beliefs and illusions, as Mrs. Eddy says, 
then Christ came down to earth to chase phantoms, and his 
sufferings and death on the cross were a sham. Who is 
the sham Mrs. Eddy or the Christ of the New Testament 
and history? We will let your own heart decide that ques- 
tion. 

CONCERNING ANGELS, 


S. & H. teaches: ‘‘ Angels are God’s thoughts passing 
to man ; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect.’’—P. 527. 
‘They are pure thoughts winged with truth and love.’’— 
P. 69. ‘‘ Not messengers or persons, but messages of the 
true idea of Divinity flowing into humanity.’’—P.7o0. ‘‘ The 
belief in good and evil spirits belongs to the dark ages.’’— 
P. 236. ‘‘ Spirits are but personal forms of belief.’’ The 
Greek word used everywhere to denote these heavenly visi- 
tants to earth is ‘‘angelos,’’ which is always and every-. 
where translated angel or messenger and cannot be trans- 
lated ‘‘ message’’ without grossly violating all laws of lan- 
guage. In Heb. 1, 7, 14 and elsewhere angels are express- 
ly called ‘‘ ministering spirits,’’ who people heaven, do the 
will of God, and minister to the saints. But Mrs. Eddy 
with a ruthless hand brushes aside the Scriptures, and con- 
signs the belief in angelsto the dark ages. The blasphemer ! 


CONCERNING THE DEVIL, 

S. & H. teaches: He is ‘‘a lie: error ; neither a person, 
nor a principle, a personal belief of sin and evil.’’—P. 531. 
‘« There are evil beliefs called evil spirits, but they are not 
spirit or they could not be evil.’,—P. 79. ‘‘ The only evil 
or devil in the universe are made up of such erroneous be- 
liefs’’ (sin, sickness, death).—P. 276. ‘‘A lie is the only 
satan there is.’’ 

Our answer is a reference to the fallof our first parents in 
the Garden of Eden, the trials of Job, the temptation of 
Christ, where he is represented as an intelligent, active, 
subtile, walking, talking, deceiving, tempting, lying being, 
sending calamities and death. Also to 1 Pet. 5, 8; Matt. 
Peete: T2, 2A. 


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Hell, according to S. & H., is a vague, indescribable 
nothingness that exists only in mortal mind, which itself is 
nothing. After reading such a jumbled mass of contradic- 
tions, and such a sacrilegious handling of Holy Scripture, 
which Mrs. Eddy tries to palm off on humanity as religion, 
we cannot refrain from observing, ‘‘If there is not a hell, 
there ought to be.’’ 

The great doctrines of the atonement and justification by 
faith in Christ, along with other precious truths, she prac- 
tically relegates to the dark ages. 

The Holy City, the New Jerusalem, of which John gives 
such a beautiful and vivid description in Revelation, as the 
home of the blessed, is, according to Mrs. Eddy, Christian 
Science. 


IV. AS A SYSTEM OF THERAPEUTICS, 


C. S. is absurd beyond description. Concerning sickness 
and disease of all descriptions she teaches: ‘‘ Nothing but 
mortal belief gives colds and coughs, or circulates conta- 
gion.’’—P. 113. ‘‘ Man is immortal; the body cannot die, 
because it has no life of itsown. The illusion named death, 
sickness, and sin, are all that can be destroyed.’’—P. 317. 
‘‘ Tf sin, sickness, and death were understood as nothing- 
ness they would disappear.’’—P. 413. ‘‘You say that a boil 
is painful; but this is impossible, for matter without mind 
is not painful. The boil simply manifests your belief in 
pain, inflammation, and swelling. And you call this belief 
a boil.’’—P. 339. 

In speaking of consumption she says: ‘‘ Show that it is not 
inherited ; that inflammation, tubercles, hemorrhages, de- 
composition are beliefs, images of mortal thought, superim- 
posed upon the body ; that they are not the truth of man ; 
that they should be treated as error and put out of mortal 
mind. Then these ills will disappear from the body.’’— 
Besos: 

There is no need of multiplying quotations. These give 
. the fundamentals of her teachings. Briefly stated they are 
these : Sin, sickness, death, pain and suffering of all kinds 
are not real, but imaginary. You are not sick, do not suf- 
fer pain, you only think so. They are beliefs of mortal 


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mind. But what is mortal mind that it can impose such 
suffering on humanity.? We'll let Mrs. Eddy answer: 
“** Mortal mind is zothing claiming to be something, belief 
causing other beliefs.’".—P. 545. But how nothing can 
originate something and flood the earth with such hosts of 
malignant beliefs, she does not explain. 

That many of the ills and troubles of life are only imagi- 
nary we freely admit. That many people worry and fret 
themselves sick is undisputed ; and if they would only lay 
_ aside their morbid fancies they would be well. It is also a 
well known fact that the invalid who is cheerful and patient 
will recover much sooner than one who is discouraged and 
fretful. 

But to tell a inan whose lungs have rotted away with con- 
sumption, or who is consumed with a burning fever, that 
he is not sick, that he only thinks so, is to mock him in his 
misery. 

What shall we say in reply? What need to reply? Do 
not our hospitals, insane asylums, sanitariums, well filled 
graveyards, consumpted forms, fever tossed patients, and 
our own pains and ills reply with a logic stronger than lan- 
guage can use. What of the many thousands who have 
died under C. S. treatment ? 

In addition to this, the Bible brands C. S. as falsehood. 
In various places inthe Pentateuch, Moses gives many good 
and useful sanitary laws ; such as, the seclusion of lepers, 
laws forbidding the marriage of near kin, laws prohibiting 
eating animals that had died of disease, names and descrip- 
tion of diseases to which they would be exposed, etc. 

Job was afflicted with boils, Paul had a thorn in the flesh, 
Christ suffered and died. If, as C. S. says, ‘‘there is no 
pain or death,’’ then Christ’s crucifixion and death was all 
a sham. But it isenough for the Christian to know that 
the Bible teaches the opposite. 

A few quotations will suffice to show Mrs. Eddy’s form 
of treatment: ‘If you are believing and doing wrong 
knowingly, you can at once change your course and do 
right. So if you believe yourself sick, you can in like man- 
ner alter this belief and action.’’—P. 104. C.S. is a pan- 


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a a 
acea for all ills. ‘‘It is sunlight to the body; it invigorates 
and purifies ; it acts as an alterative, neutralizing error with — 
truth. /¢ changes the secretions, expels humors, relaxes rigid 
muscles, restores carious bones to soundness.’’ — P. 105. 
‘‘When a sufferer is convinced that there isno pain, because 
matter is non-existent, how can he possibly suffer longer?” 
—P. 389. ‘‘If your patient believes in taking cold, men- 
tally convince him that matter cannot take cold...if you 
succeed in removing fear your patient is healed.’’—P. 299. 


Mrs. Eddy claims to heal hopeless diseases, raise the dying, 
set broken and crushed bones without touching the patient. 
Wonderful indeed ! ! ! 

Hear her prove it: A case of convulsions, produced by 
indigestion. ...In belief, the woman had chronic liver 
complaint, and was then suffering from abdominal obstruc- 
tion and bilious colic. Cured her in a few minutes. One 
instant she said: ‘‘I must vomit or die. The next minute 
she said: ‘‘My food is all gone and I would like something 
more to eat.’’—P. 311. On page 199, she tells of a man, 
the bones of whose foot were crushed by a piece of falling 
timber, who put on his boot and walked several miles the 
same day she began treating him. On the following page 
she tells of a Mr. Clark who had been confined to his bed 
for six months with an incurable hip disease. His eyes 
were already fixed and sightless—the dew of death was upon 
his brow. But in ten minutes under her treatment he was 
able to arise, dress himself, and eat supper with his family. 

These are a few of the Arabian Night tales by which Mrs. 
Eddy has succeeded in making herself ridiculous in the eyes 
of intelligent people. 


That she has cured cases of hysterics and hypochondria no 
one denies. Dowie, of Chicago, has done the same; hun- 
dreds of physicians have done likewise with bread pills. 
But if Mrs. Eddy really possesses the wonderful power of 
healing all diseases, why does she not do the Christ-like 
thing, and exercise that power in behalf of suffering hu- 
manity? Why is it that since 1888, she says in the preface 
of her book, ‘‘ The authoress takes no patients, and has no 
time for medical consultation ?’? Why is it that medical 


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colleges have offered her large sums of money for a single 
demonstration of her power, which she has steadily refused ? 
Why? For the simple reason that such a test would expose 
the gigantic fraud, the unspeakable humbug that she is, 
imposing on thousands of ignorant and easily deceived men 
and women. 

I cannot refrain from giving another story. ‘‘A little 
girl who had listened to my explanations, wounded her 
finger badly. She seemed not to notice it. When asked 
about it she answered, ‘There is no sensation in matter.’ 
Bounding off with laughing eyes, she added, ‘Mamma, my 
finger is not a bit sore.’ ’’ 

Thus C. S. teaches the little ones to lie and act the hypo- 
crite. Mrs. Eddy says: ‘‘A lie is the only devil there is.’’ 
If this is true, she and her set have turned more devils loose 
on this world than all the lower regions can summon. 


Mrs. Eddy claims that Christ was a Christian Scientist, 
healed by C. S. methods, and that healing was his frst article 
of faith. This we emphatically deny. He never taught or 
practiced any such nonsense as is to be foundin S.& H. The 
great purpose for which Christ came on earth was, not to heal 
the body, but save the immortal soul; not to remove disease, 
but to destroy sin the cause of all sickness and sorrow. He 
wrought miraculous cures as a proof of his claims that He 
was the Son of God and the Savior of the world. He ex- 
pressly stated in John: ‘‘ The works that I do testify of me 
that the Father hath sent me.’’ When John in prison ask- 
ed, ‘‘Art thou he that should come or do we look for an- 
other ?’’ he pointed to his preaching and miracles as the 
proof of his Messiahship. Nicodemus recognized the logic 
of his miracles and said to the Savior: John 3, 2, ‘‘No man 
can do these works which thou doest except God be with 
him.”’ 

Christ gave this same power of miracles to his disciples, 
so that the world might know thereby that they were di- 
vinely commissioned to establish the church on earth. But 
it cannot be shown that any one except an apostle, or one 
on whom an apostle had laid hands, possessed this power to 
work miracles. 


or the plain, simple truths of the Gospel, as co 


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Certainly God heals diseases in answ 
in the same way that he answers our pra 
We pray, ‘‘Give us this day our daily bre 
and till the fields. God sends the rain anc¢ 


means he grants the blessing. et 
One more and I am done. Mrs. Eddy says 
neither strengthens nor weakens the body,” bi 
‘‘would not be wise to stop eating until we g 
edge.’’ here is no such a thing as heat or 
are only mortal beliefs. Now, if Mrs. Eddy 
us a practical demonstration of the fact that it’s , 
us to live without food for our bodies or heat t 
warm, we will regard her as mankind’s greatest 
But until she does we must regard her either as 
fraud or as a fit subject for the insane asylum. 
Now which will you choose? The husks 1 


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